Kindergarten Curriculum

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Reading

• Consonant names and sounds
• Blends
• Two vowel rule
• Vowel alone sounds
• Selected “sight” words (i.e.: the, of, to, do, who, I, a)
• Readers:
  • I See
  • Joan
  • The Red Reader

Spelling

• Printing upper and lower case alphabet
• Weekly spelling lessons progressing from six to twelve words
• Dictated stories of two to four sentences
  

Grammar

• Singular vs. plural
• Vocabulary development
• Introduction to noun/verb agreement
• Introduction of the who/doing sentence
• Capitals and punctuation
  

Literature

• Johnny Crow’s New Garden
• April’s Kittens
• The Little Engine That Could
• Selected poems from Robert Louis Stevenson
• Over in the Meadow
• Kate Greenaway
  

Math

• Printing numbers 1 – 100
• Spelling numbers on to ten
• Number line 1 – 9
• Addition:
  • Adding one to sums of 1 – 9
  • Adding two to sums of 2 – 9
  • Adding three to sums of 3 – 9
• Subtraction:
  • Subtracting one with remainders of 0 – 8
  • Subtracting two with remainders of 0 – 7
• Measuring whole inches with a ruler
• Sorting and categorizing data
• Counting and identifying pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters
• Telling time to the whole hour and half hour
• Identifying less/more, greater/smaller
• Estimating
• Simple graphs
• Counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s
• Recognizing and continuing patterns

Science

• Life Science:
  • Nutrition
  • Plants
  • Animal habitats
• Physical Science:
• Weather
• Seasons
• Heat/Cold
• Earth Science:
• Conservation of earth's resources
• Characteristics of landforms

Spanish

Music

Art/Art History

Physical Education

Kindergarten Vowel Chart
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